Faculty Info

Department of Classics

• Joel Relihan, Professor of Classics
  
  Joel C. Relihan, Chair of the Department of Classics, Coordinator of the Programs in German and Russian, was promoted to full professor in 2001. He is the department's Latinist: a translation of Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius will be available from Hackett publishers in the Fall of 2001; a full-length study of Consolation will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2002 (The Prisoner's Philosophy). A broader work in late classical literary studies is his Ancient Menippean Satire (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); he intends to start soon on a new translation of Apuleius, to include not only the Golden Ass but some of his philosophical works as well. He teaches a wide range of courses outside of Latin, including The Ancient Landscape, The Ancient Romance, Egypt in the Greco-Roman World, and Tales of Troy. For a full résumé, click here.
  
  
• Nancy Evans, Assistant Professor of Classics
  
  Nancy Evans received her B.A. from Smith College, studied Classics at the University of Zurich, and earned her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Brown University. She teaches courses in Greek language and literature, and Latin literature; her classes taught in English include courses on classical mythology, the ancient novel, women in antiquity, and religions in the Classical world, including Judaism and early Christianity. Her research is interdisciplinary, encompassing religion, philosophy, and women's studies. She has written on the influence of religious language on Plato and the pre-Socratic philosophers, on the history of the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, and on women and myths of the origins of sacrifice.
  

Associated Faculty

• Professor Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Associate Professor of Religion
• Professor John Partridge, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Professor Allison Levy, Assistant Professor of Art History
  

Last update: 11/14/01